Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 13,127, Abraham Garrison, New York

SERVICE
NUMBER
New York
Garrison Abraham
813127
carded
CONTENTS

10790
8706
New York
Abraham Garrison
of Ontario Co in the State of New York who was a private in the Company commanded by Captain Gray of the Regt commanded by Col McInty in the N Y mil line for 24 Mo.
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 50 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 day of May 1833 and sent to O. Loomis, Rushville
Arrears to the 4th of March 1833 $160.00 Semi-ann. allowance ending Sept - 40.00 $200.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by W. L. Williams Clerk, Book C Vol. 4 Page 20
Let. to Pensioner, 21 Sept 1837 " " Pension Agent, same date

Abraham Garrison Declaration
10,790.
C. Loonis Agent Rushville N.Y.
Parcel

State of New York Ontario County
On this twenty seventh day of August in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two Personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Ontario now sitting. Abraham Garrison a resident of the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario aforesaid aged seventy one years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions of the act of Congress passed June 7. 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officer and served as herein stated
In the month of May or June of 1780. He was hired by a class of militia to serve for the term of nine months as a soldier and immediately proceeded to Saratoga in the State of New York where he was attached to a company under capt. Silas Gray in Col. John McKinstrey's Regiment He continued to serve as a soldier in the said Company and Regiment till the expiration of the said term of nine months during all which time he was stationed at Saratoga. Upon the expiration of the said term he immediately enlisted for during the war in the same Company and Regiment. In the spring of 1781. he marched with the said Company and regiment from Saratoga to Fort Edward. and after remaining at that Post a few days returned to Saratoga where he continued to do duty till intelligence of peace was received when he received an

honorable discharge.
The deponent further saith -
1 st That he was born in the town of Franklin in the State of New Jersey on the 25 th day of December in the year 1760 - 2 nd That he has no record of his age except a memorandum thereof in his family Bible 3 rd That when first called into service he was living at Pittstown, now County of Rensselaer and State of New York, to which place he returned when discharged from service, that he removed therefrom about twenty seven years since to the present town of Goshen where he yet resides - 4 th That he was hired by a class of Militia in Pittstown as aforesaid - to serve for nine months - and that he then enlisted for during the war - 5. That he recollects Gen. Stark as in command at Saratoga while he was stationed at that place 6 That he received a discharge from the service signed by Col. John M c Kinstry - that some years since he delivered it to Col. Dudley Marvin then a representative from the state of New York in Congress on the occasion of an application made by deponent for a pension under the Act of March 18 th 1818 - and that he supposes said discharge to be now on file in the War Department -

The War Department.
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7 th That John Francisco of the town of Gorham aforesaid and Jerome Van Nest of Pittsford in the County of Monroe are the only persons known to him who are now living who have personal knowledge of his said services or of part of the same -
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of the agency of any state - his
Witness Chester Loomis
Abraham Garrison mark
I sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open Court
State of New York, Ontario County ss
John Francisco of the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario aforesaid being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he was well acquainted with Abraham Garrison previous to the revolutionary War, during the same, and ever since, that he recollects distinctly that the said Abraham Garrison did in the Summer of 1780 hire to, or was hired by a Clap of a militia Company

of Pittstown in the said State, to serve as a soldier in the Army for the term of nine months, and that he started to join the Army, and deponent then understood that he did so join the Army, and that he was attached to Capt Gray's Company and Col. McKinstry's Regiment. nor has he ever heard any doubt of the fact of his having rendered such service as a soldier as he has set forth in his foregoing declaration. Deponent further saith that he understood at the time, and now verily believes that the said Abraham Garrison, on the expiration of his said term of nine months service did enlist to serve for during the war and that he well recollects to have seen his regular discharge from such service, signed by Col. John M. McKinstry And further the said deponent saith that he has long been in feeble health, and is now entirely unable to attend the sitting of the County Court of the County in which he resides - And further saith not -
John + Francisco mark
Sworn and subscribed to the 20 day of August 1832
Before me Chester Loomis
A Judge of the County Court of Ontario County aforesaid

5 We Michael A. Francisco and Levi Francisco residing in the town of Gorham in the County of Ontario aforesaid, hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Abraham Garrison who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration that we believe him to be seventy one years of age. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion -
I sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid in open court.
Levi Francisco Mark: M. A. Francisco
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, once served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Michael Francisco and Levi Francisco who have signed the preceding certificate are both residents of the town of Gorham, are credible persons, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
I, Charles Crane, Clerk of said court, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Abraham Garrison for a pension. And I do further certify that

I am well Chester Poorn is whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the for signing affidavit of John Francisco is a Judge of the said Court, and was so a Judge at the date of said certificate; and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of said Chester, and verily believe his name thereto subscribed to be his proper hand and signature.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this first day of September A.D. 1832.
Charles Crane
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10790
Abraham Garrison
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of January A.D.
1833.
admitted. 24 mo. Private.
Charles Crane

On this twenty fourth day of December in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two Abraham Garrison who has subscribed and sworn to the annexed declaration personally appeared before me Chester Soomies, one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario in the State of New York and being being duly sworn doth on his oath, make the following addition to his said declaration Viz - That he served as a private soldier in the service of the United States from the month of May, or of June (and he is unable to recollect with certainty which) of the year 1780 - till the close or near the close of the year 1782 and that the time during which he actually served as a soldier, exclusive of such time as he was absent on furlough was according to his best recollection two years and three months - He further saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service as aforesaid, but that he has no hesitation whatever in testifying as he now doth that the same was not less than two years and three months.
Witness Chester Soomies
Abraham his Garrison mark
Sworn and subscribed to the 24 day of December 1832 before me Chester Soomies
Judge of the County Courts of Ontario County aforesaid
I Chester Soomies one of the Judges of the County Courts of the County of Ontario in the State of New York do hereby certify that I am well acquainted with John Francisco, a President of the town of Gosham in the said County, whose affidavit, sworn and subscribed to, before me on the 20 th day of August last past is hereunto annexed.

is a credible person, whose statement is entitled to credit and that he sustains in the neighborhood where he resides, a good character for truth and veracity
Chester Loomis Judge &c -
State of New-York } Ontario County ss. } I, Charles Crane Clerk of said county do hereby certify, that Chester Loomis whose name is subscribed to the certificate within as well as to the certificate above, was at the date within & now is a Judge of the courts in and for said county. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the said signatures to be his proper act and deed.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this fourth day of January A.D. 1833 -
Charles Crane
10790 Abraham Garrison
admitted. 24 mo. Private.

Enlist  No  10,790
Abraham Garrison " "
admitted
24 mo. Private.
45. 14. 16
9 Sept. 1832 6 Decr. "
C. Loomis
134.

No 10,790
BRIEF in the case of Abraham Garrison of Gorham County of Ontario — in the State of New York — (Act 7th June, 1839.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge?
Before a Court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he?
71 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     In 1780 May or June. — 9 — private Genl. Silas Gray — Col. John   1781 Spring. — till intelligence of peace was received. " McKinstry — same Officers —  
5. In what battles was he engaged?
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service?
At Pittstown now Rensselaer County. New York.
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?
1 living witness and traditional evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
X  Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Odell
Examining Clerk.

13127 INVALID.
No. 13127
Abraham Garrison
Dis Rev War
Act: June 7 th 32
Index:—Vol. 1 , Page 138
[Arrangement of 1870.]

State of New York Ontario County } S.
For the purpose of obtaining the benefits of the act entitled "an act for the relief of certain officers and soldiers of the Army of the Revolution" approved on the 15th day of May 1828, I Abraham Garrison of the Town of Gorham County of Ontario and State of New York, do hereby declare, that I enlisted in the Continental Army of the Revolution, for the term of Three Years and was soon after transferred to the during the War service, and continued in the said service until the termination of the War at which period I was a private in Capt Gray Company but does not know in what regiment, but received his discharge from Col John McKinsty - that he never received the certificate he was entitled to under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778. that his said discharge was kept until a few years ago when it was handed to Dudley Morris Esq. then a Member of Congress from this district, and who can now give no account of it; and I further declare that I was not, on the fifteenth day of May 1828, on the pension list of the United States.
Witness my hand this sixth day of July in the year One Thousand eight hundred and thirty one
his Abraham + Garrison Mark
# 14,157 Rev. # 2,250 do # 13,127
# 4,400 Rev. # 4,400 Rev. # 3927 Rev
State of New York Ontario County } S.
Be it known that before me Richard M. Bayly a Notary Public in the County of said personally appeared Michael Francisco and made oath as follows: I saw that he knows the above named Abraham Garrison and

Re: 12 July 1831. 96 Knows that said Garrison enlisted as set forth in his declaration at Saratoga for three years or during the war in Capt. [blank] Company and as he believing in the Regiment commanded by Col. John McKinstry - that he has seen the discharge of said Garrison which was signed by said Col. McKinstry
Michael Francis [blank]
Sworn & subscribed this 6th day of July 1831 before me R. M. Bayly Not. P.
State of New York Ontario County ss.
Be it known that before me Richard M. Bayly a Public Notary in said County personally appeared John Francisco of Gorham in county and state aforesaid and made oath in due form of law that he is well acquainted with Abraham Garrison above named and said Garrison resided in his neighbourhood during the Revolutionary War - that said Garrison was absent and supposed to belong to the Army and as this deponent believing did belong to the Army - that after the close of the war said Garrison handed this deponent a discharge from the service signed by Col. John McKinstry, and said discharge this deponent kept for many years and then returned to said Garrison
John X Garrison his mark
Sworn & subscribed this 6th day of July 1831 before me R. M. Bayly Not. P.
in the matter of Abraham Garrison